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A Tattoo on my Brain
A Tattoo on my Brain
A Tattoo on my Brain
A Neurologist s Personal Battle against Alzheimer s Disease
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Cambridge University Press
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2021
A Tattoo on my Brain
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Dr Daniel Gibbs is one of 50 million people worldwide with an Alzheimer s disease diagnosis. Unlike most patients with Alzheimer s, however, Dr Gibbs worked as a neurologist for twenty-five years, caring for patients with the very disease now affecting him. Also unusual is that Dr Gibbs had begun to suspect he had Alzheimer s several years before any official diagnosis could be made. Forewarned by genetic testing showing he carried alleles that increased the risk of developing the disease, he noticed symptoms of mild cognitive impairment long before any tests would have alerted him. In this highly personal account, Dr Gibbs documents the effect his diagnosis has ha